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Show yiiPH c?ppooi AIB AA9 0 IT fbfr km Pll rCr mm IULLlUL Educators Demand Colleges Col-leges Revise Their Entrance En-trance Requirements San Francisco, July 11. Declaring that "The high school of today is the arena in which our greatest educational educa-tional problems should be worked out," the department on high schools today presented Its report to the National Na-tional Education association The report re-port was in line with the request made last year by the department on high schools that the colleges revise their entrance requirements In such a way that the high schools might meet modern needs Formulated by the committee of nine educators, the report cites the criticism of tho Carnogie Foundation I that American education from elementary elemen-tary school to college Is suffering from the attempt to leach too many subjects to the same student at the samo time. Considering some of the special functions of the bigh school the report re-port says: "The high school must instruct every ev-ery student in the elements of good citizenship. This duty cannot be delegated del-egated to the college, because there is no guaranty that their particular student would actually go to college. 1 "High school courses must be flexible, flex-ible, for the high school period 13 the I time for the youth to discover his bent "Broad vocational Instructions should find place In the high school to prepare for efficiency. "Mechanics, arts, griculture or household science should bo recognized recog-nized as rational elements in the education ed-ucation of all boys and girls, and especially of those wlio have not as yet chosen their vocations High school attondance in this country hns , Increased almost fourfold within the ' last twentj years. If tho colleges I will recognize the true functions of the high school, this marvelous I growth will continue unabated, and 1 tho American high school will be-I be-I come an Institution unparallelod as , n factor for democratic living. It Is doubtful whether any nation ever be-foro be-foro possessed such an opportunity." |